We're having lots of fun with this! I always have to think about the power grid before I place something, unlike in vanilla. Also I don't think solar panels will be used in the normal way. The factory looks very different with the power grid overlay.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc ...

Combat is still inherently bland, just adding content like spidertron or artillery train won't help its case.

I'd like to re-iterate what I and others have said. This is a puzzle game about automation. Until we can automate combat, it will never really be fun, it will simply be a chore. I'm not ...

Brilliant idea!

Sure, an RTG would be fine. But it's totally within the theme of the game to have a light water reactor in a backpack.

I came to the forum to suggest exactly the same thing, but DaveMcW beat me to it. It never made sense to have one type of power available for armor but not for the factory.

(Although I suppose by that logic we should also have portable coal fired boilers.)

Better map colors, more different colors for entities,

If you can't wait: try osldgoth's Enhanced Map Colors: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/osldgoth ... Map_Colors

Here's something that hasn't been discussed much: Homing projectiles.
I think it's silly that spitters and worms always hit their targets. Drive full speed in a train past a worm and it gets hit every time.
Instead, allow the spitter/worm to lead the target a bit. So running in a straight line, the ...

just to put belts for the ingredients, then the assembler and finally get the result
You just have to be more imaginative when designing your factories:
[img] http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=752000311 [/img]
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Linosaurus wrote:Engine units in pack 3 is an interesting change. Going to need a lot of assemblers for that!

Sounds fun! I think that it's also time to rebalance most of the recipes. When most items take .5 seconds to craft, there's not as many interesting design problems.

darkhog wrote:Removing all the robot bays from the map

Do you mean remove all the roboports? Because that's not really an option.

The new rails are an improvement, but they don't look very good to me. The size and spacing of the ties, and the overall width of the tracks, are different between horizontal and vertical.

Yes.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the server was supposed to slow down to match the client.

All of the turbines have steam and they are working fine. I'm producing less than 320MW because the factory isn't using that much. Shouldn't the bars be filled to the same percentage as the steam engines?

Thanks for doing this, it's the only way to keep my marathon factory running! I found a minor bug: on the power graph, once the reactors produce 60MW, the bar is filled:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =758282659

I'm also noticing this issue. I am using mods, but from the stats, it seems only uranium power is using a significant amount of time. I have a Core i7 920 CPU. When in single player I get 50fps/ups steadily, so I may be reaching the limit of what CPU can handle. However in multiplayer there is a ...

Inserters can remove coal from boilers, but not furnaces. I always use this setup with electric furnaces, but I tried with regulars tonight and it doesn't work. From the way that boilers work, I would expect this to.
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kovarex wrote:Not currently, but we need motivate people to report desyncs so we can eliminate them as well

Is there a specific place we should upload those? What if we don't know what caused them? I could spawn dozens of new threads in the bug tracker, but I'm not sure how helpful that would be.

I found a game-breaking bug: I control-clicked to load the reactor and it put some pipes and belts in there. This caused the game to immediately crash.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=753396812

137.666 Error MainLoop.cpp:738: Exception at tick 23202843: Error while running ...

"Players automatically quit game after 3 desyncs"
This is good if a player is desyncing constantly. However in my games I sometimes desync only once an hour or so. Is there a timer that resets the counter?